Re: Pricing Questions -- MAPICS-L

Namdu, Regarding your questions:

1 - Price book pricing does work! I suspect that you are getting the wrong
price because there is a mismatch on either currency ID or Customer Price
Code.

2 - Contract pricing is intended to handle a specific contract with a
specific customer, that is going to last for some time and will involeve
multiple customer orders. Therefore, it ALWAYS requires a contract number
and customer number. If these conditions do not apply, using price books or
entering override prices on the customer order are better solutions.

3 - Contract pricing is designed for EXCEPTION situations where you have
large one-of-a-kind deals with customers that involve multiple customer
orders. Price Book pricing is designed to let you do special pricing for a
class of customers on an on-going basis.  When you use Price Book pricing,
you should set up the Price Book Code and Customer Price Code on the
Customer Master record so they can default into your customer orders.

"The MAPICS XA Customer Order Management Book" has a chapter on Pricing.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Nandagopal Padmanabhan" <npadmanabhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mapics-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: Pricing Questions


> Hello Group,
> I'm in the process of setting up an efficient pricing structure in MAPICS.
We currently have 1 price book on our system and this price book doesn't
contain any pages i.e. simply uses the base price information. I'm trying to
setup another price book and add records to page 1. I created a new price
book, added an item to page 1 and put in a new item price (say $4000). While
creating a COM order for that item, I changed the price book ID and the
price code to the new values, but the system doesn't use the new page 1 item
price ($4000) and it uses the price (say $3500) available in the item base
price file for that item. I also checked the effectivity date and it looks
ok.
>
> However, I was able to accomplish the above by creating a contract for the
customer/item and using the contract number on the COM order and the correct
selling price ($4000) appeared on the invoice. So here are my questions:
>
> (1) Why does the price book approach not work? Am I missing something?
> (2) How do I get the system to get the contract  pricing for an item even
WITHOUT entering the contract number on the COM order?
> (3) Could someone point out the general differences between 'Page 1-Price
Book' approach and 'Contract' approach?
>
> Thanks,
> Nandu
>
>
>
>
>


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